Visual Political Communication

ISBN-13: 9783030187286 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 288 str.

Anastasia Veneti; Daniel Jackson; Darren G. Lilleker

Recenzje

"This collection is a welcome intervention that, in the editors' words, places visuals at the 'epicenter' of the relationship between political communicators and audiences. The various chapters draw our attention to a number of important developments, in particular, the rise of social media, and go some way to addressing what remains an 'under researched area' in political communication, providing a theoretical framework and methodological guidelines to aid future studies. I would recommend this collection to all those interested in understanding and analyzing political visuals in contemporary democracies." (James Stanyer, The International Journal of Press-Politics. Vol. 26 (1), January 1, 2021)

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Visual Political Communication

Darren G. Lilleker, Anastasia Veneti, Daniel Jackson

Part I: Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Visual Political Communication

2. The Digital Transformation of Visual Politics

Paul Messaris

3. The power of visual political communication: pictorial politics through the lens of communication psychology

Darren G. Lilleker

4. The Interdisciplinary Roots and Digital Branches of Visual Political Communication Research

Roman Gerodimos

5. Visual Methods for Political Communication Research: Modes and Affordances

Luc Pauwels, University of Antwerp

Part II: The Use of Visuals in Political Campaigning

6. From Analogue to Digital Negativity ‒ Attacks and Counter-Attacks, Satire and Absurdism on Election Posters Offline and Online

Bengt Johansson, Christina Holtz-Bacha

7. Political parties and their pictures. Visual communication on Instagram in Swedish and Norwegian election campaigns

Uta Russmann, Jakob Svensson, Anders Olof Larsson

8. Visual Political Communication in Italian electoral campaigns

Edoardo Novelli

Part III: Visual Governance

9. The Visual Presidency of Donald Trump First Hundred Days: Political Image Making and Digital Media

Ryan T. Strand, Dan Schill

10. Greek Political Leaders on Instragram: Between ‘soft’ and ‘hard’ personalisation 

Stamatis Poulakidakos, Iliana Giannouli

11. The political power of smiling. How politicians’ displays of happiness affect viewers’ gaze behavior and political judgments 

Michael Sülflow, Marcus Maurer

Part IV: Citizen-led Forms of Visual Political Communication

12. #MoreInCommon: Collective Mourning Practices on Twitter and the Iconisation of Jo Cox

Katy Parry

13. Picturing the political: Embodied visuality of protest imagery

Bolette B. Blaagaard

14. Connective Politics, Videos and Algorithms: YouTube’s Mediation of Audiovisual Political Communication

Andrea Medrado, Simone do Vale, Adilson Cabral

O autorze

Anastasia Veneti is Senior Lecturer in Marketing Communications at Bournemouth University, UK. Her research lays at the intersection of media and politics, including (visual) political communication, digital political campaigning, media framing, protests and social movements, and photojournalism. She is Convenor of the Centre for Politics and Media Research at Bournemouth University.

Daniel Jackson is Associate Professor of Media and Communication at Bournemouth University, UK. His research broadly explores the intersection of media and democracy, including news coverage of politics, the construction of news, political communication, and political talk in online environments. He is Convenor of the Journalism Research Group at Bournemouth University.

Darren G. Lilleker is Associate Professor in Political Communication at Bournemouth University, UK. His expertise is in public engagement in politics, and he has published widely on the professionalisation and marketisation of political communication. He is editor of the Palgrave Macmillan series Political Communication and Campaigning.

Blurb

‘This book is an innovative and timely collection that will soon become central to research and teaching on visual, digital and political communication. Through an original combination of theoretical reflections, methodological recommendations and empirical findings, this volume offers a well-rounded approach to exploring the relationship between visual images, digital technologies, and political practices. The collection’s cutting-edge case studies convincingly demonstrate the power of the visual in top-down and bottom-up politics alike.’ –Giorgia Aiello, Associate Professor in Media and Communication, University of Leeds, UK

‘At a time when political communication is increasingly dominated by visual imagery, this ground-breaking volume makes an essential intervention. It provides a comprehensive, engaging, provocative and wide range of contributions that advance knowledge in this sorely neglected, but increasingly vital area of research, and help us understand everything from the rise of Donald Trump to the strategies of the #BlackLivesMatter movement.’ –Professor Karin Wahl-Jorgensen, Cardiff University, UK

‘The theme image vs. substance is challenging scholars in the digital age. In Visual Political Communication, the contributors explore the dynamics of visual communication and the political communication process. The result is an in-depth analysis of the various ramifications of the visual in political communication, in campaigns and in government that sheds light into many disquieting phenomena we notice in modern politics worldwide.’ –Gianpietro Mazzoleni, Professor of Political Communication, University of Milan, Italy

This edited volume offers a theoretically driven, empirically grounded survey of the role visual communication plays in political culture, enabling a better understanding of the significance and impact visuals can have as tools of political communication. The advent of new media technologies have created new ways of producing, disseminating and consuming visual communication, the book hence explores the theoretical and methodological underpinnings of visual political communication in the digital age, and how visual communication is employed in a number of key settings.

Anastasia Veneti is Senior Lecturer in Marketing Communications at Bournemouth University, UK.

Daniel Jackson is Associate Professor of Media and Communication at Bournemouth University, UK.

Darren G. Lilleker is Associate Professor in Political Communication at Bournemouth University, UK.